Open Web Analytics Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Dell SecureWorks Security Advisory SWRX-2014-004

Advisory Information

Title: Open Web Analytics Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Advisory ID: SWRX-2014-004
Date published: Thursday, February 13, 2014
CVE: CVE-2014-1456
CVSS v2 base score: 5.0
Date of last update: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Vendors contacted: Open Web Analytics
Release mode: Coordinated
Discovered by: Dana James Traversie, Dell SecureWorks

Summary

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source web analytics software that can track and analyze how visitors use websites and applications. OWA is vulnerable to a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to insufficient input validation of a parameter on the login page. User-controllable input is not properly sanitized before being displayed in dynamically generated web content. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to conduct reflected XSS attacks.

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